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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sam's website link provides most of the details.
Just a few things to add:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The church was built in 1883-4 and the tower added
in 1907 (Pevsner "South Lancs"). There's a picture of the church with the report
of the dedication of the bells in <EM>Bell News</EM> <SPAN lang=EN-GB
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Sept.1907</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The inscriptions are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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BY JOHN WARNER & SONS LONDON 1907. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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& JOHNSTON, CROYDON. / (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CFJ
monogram</I>) </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Waist</I>: RECAST 1935 / 7 </SPAN></DIV>
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CAST BY JOHN WARNER & SONS L<SUP>TD</SUP> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">LONDON</st1:City></st1:place> 1902. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Waist</I>: CORONATION <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">BELL</st1:City></st1:place> 1902 / DOUGLAS E.
HORTON – VICAR / D.J. BROOKES } / A. CASE } CHURCHWARDENS.</SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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face=Arial size=2>I have an alternative set of diameters - <SPAN lang=EN-GB
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25”, 27”, 28.5<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">”</SPAN>, 30<SUP>15<SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">/</SPAN></SUP></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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33<SUP><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">3/</SPAN></SUP></SPAN><SPAN
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35.5<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">”</SPAN>, 38.875” (possibly from
John Wilton - I don't think I measured the bells myself because they were on the
floor at Stoneycroft when I saw them there in 1990)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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Taylor inspection was 1933 (not 1923 - a typo in my
notes)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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well as recasting the 7th, Gillett & Johnston installed an Ellacombe chiming
system in 1935 <SPAN lang=EN-GB
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on brass plate on the manual).</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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lang=EN-GB
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bells were originally in a cast iron frame by Warner 1907, apparently on steel
girders (which failed) but the castings were mounted on wooden beams. The
fittings were wooden stocks, plate gudgeons, plain bearings, traditional wheels,
stays and sliders etc. All with independent crown staples. </SPAN><SPAN
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<st1:place w:st="on">Doncaster</st1:place> heads on 1-6, flat tops to 7 and 8
(</SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Wilton</st1:City></st1:place>)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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